I am baby watching baby things, mostly.
I was technically born in the 1990s, but I'm not a '90s kid. I do feel like I have a firm grasp on what television was like during the 1990s, though, and my personal takeaways will always be the sitcoms. Drama was still tinkering, but comedy had arrived, folks. Just trading bops with one another. Nothing like it. Lots to love. Love to all!
Honorables: Cheers denouement, Animaniacs, SNL, Sports Night, Freaks and Geeks first half
I don't really have a whole lot of context for what 1997 was like on television, aside from the fact that NBC probably wishes it could be 1997 all the time. Back when Must-See TV was actually Must-See and everyone else was a fringe hipster. The latter sets the culture now, but television culture was what NBC made it in 1997. Everyone else played for second.
Honourable: Arthur, Larry Sanders
My birth year! I definitely didn't know what the hell was going on with television at the time, never mind just how seismic it was. People really started to reckon with the consequences of watching stories about irredeemable people. But it was also a lesson in how the most popular shows of the time would be stalwarts forever. Nothing like Cheers has persevered the same way that binge-worthy shows from 1994 onward have. 1998 is distinctly representative of that notion.
Honored: Franklin, Whose Line, Simpsons, MST3K
Here's the plan going forward. At least for the 1990s, the list will reduce to a Top Five for each year, as things get slimmer and grimmer. We'll re-assess how to progress when we arrive at the 1980s. For now, 1999 was as solid a television year as it was a movies and music year. The Sopranos gave the medium credence. SpongeBob gave it boundless joy. Both debuted this year. Both begin with S. Both are among the greatest shows ever made. And that's just the surface of this backwards entrance into the '90s.
Honorable mentions: The West Wing's debut, Frasier's Valentines Day episode, the first Millionaire win, and Walking with Dinosaurs
Growing up, there were three kinds of kids. Disney Channel kids, Cartoon Network kids, and Nickelodeon kids. I know I might seem like I was a Disney Channel kid because I now love the Plooos and I love Disney World. However, Nickelodeon shows were always the funniest to me. They were the ones with genuine storytelling that wasn't the bad kind of stupid. Great to grow up with! It'll always hold the belt, for me!
Anything that makes me feels nostalgic upon thinking about it.
Mostly stuff from my childhood.
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